Every time US musician Amanda Palmer releases a new song, video or long-form piece of writing, she’ll earn more than a total of $13,000 from her 1,400 backers on crowdfunding site Patreon, making her one of the site’s most popular creators.

It took just over 14 hours for the musician to reach that figure after launching her profile on the US-based site, with her fans pledging to pay an average of $9.28 each whenever she releases a new piece of content to her “patron-only” feed.

Palmer famously raised $1.2m in 2012 from fans on Kickstarter to fund the release of her last album, plus an art book and tour. She’s now shifting her efforts to Patreon, with its model of regular, smaller payments from fans to support the work of creators.

So far, more than 430 fans have pledged to pay at least $10 per “thing” that Palmer releases – a payment level that will grant them access to a monthly webcast by the musician.

Amanda Palmer is crowdfunding again, but this time on Patreon

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Meanwhile, 30 have pledged at least $100 per item to join her “inner circle”. After the campaign launched, Palmer added another tier – $1,000 or more per item – with two fans already having committed to it. “I’ll call, we’ll talk, we’ll have dinner. All the things, pretty much,” she wrote. “Thank you (holy shit).”

Outside Patreon, Palmer is planning to release “pretty much” all her work for free on sites including YouTube, Bandcamp and her own website, although she may still use Kickstarter as a pre-ordering tool for one-off releases.

“If 1,600 people want vinyl, i’ll make 1,600 vinyl. No problem,” she wrote.

Patreon said in November 2014 that it was paying out $1m a month to its network of musicians, filmmakers, writers, illustrators and YouTubers. The company takes a 5% cut of creators’ revenues, and signed up more than 125,000 “patrons” in its first 18 months.